There were 2 kolkhozs in Kupel, Ukrainian and Jewish. Jewish kolkhoz was given the land that belonged to local big landowner before the revolution. On March 2, 2017 Sergiy Zadvornyy, Ukrainian historian, sent me a photograph of regional kolkhoz members conference in Kupel in the fall of 1931.

Berta (Beba) Glaser with daughter Sara Makogon on her third birthday March 25, 1935. Short before that day Beba returned home from jail for a small vacation before to leave for Alma Ata in political exile. In 1937, Stalin canceled political prisoners mode, all political exiles on reclassified cases were sent to Siberian concentration camps. The next time she saw her daughter it happened eight years later, in 1943.

10/27/15. "Yad Vashem accounts of kupelians." There is a list of perished in Holocaust kupelians, reported to Yad Vashem by their relatives. You have to understand, that this list is not complete. Some families had no survivors to report their horrible fate, everyone got murdered. Some survivors didn't have access to Yad Vashem resourses during their lifetime in Soviet Union. Go to Yad Vashem web site, search by name from the list and read horrible story about the Jew murdered in peacefull Ukrainian village.

3/31/2015. Big news and site improvement! There is Revision list of Kupel's Jews for the period of 1850-1868. 196 names of Jews, present in Kupel at that time, or list of Jewish taxpayers, at least. Ревизские сказки по Купелю за 1868-1882 г. Евреи Купеля, список имен, 196 еврейских семей - налогоплательщиков.

07/08/2012 I found in a net a very interesting book about catholic church in Khmelnitsky region in 1920-1941. Author's name is O.A. Pasechnik, book published in Khmelnitsky in 2009. It's very well written in Russian. I think, the book will be of great interest to Kupel's Poles, but also to all kupelians as well. There is some notes about presense of Jews in a region. It says, that Jews used to live in an area since XI century, about a thousand years in a row. See yourself some excerts http://kupel.net/content/poles-and-jews-khmelnitski-region